Dom DeLuise
American actor, comedian, chef, director, producer, author (1933-2009)
Ida Tarbell
American journalist (1857-1944)
Ida Minerva Tarbellwas an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism.
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About the Ida Tarbell
Ida Minerva Tarbellwas an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism.
Born in Pennsylvania at the beginning of the oil boom, Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book was first published as a series of articles in McClure’s from 1902 to 1904. It has been called a “masterpiece of investigative journalism”, by historian J. North Conway, as well as “the single most influential book on business ever published in the United States” by historian Daniel Yergin. The work contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commissionand was President of the Pen and Brush Club for 30 years. During World War I, she served on President Woodrow Wilson’s Women’s Committee on the Council of National Defense. After the war, Tarbell served on President Warren G. Harding’s 1921 Unemployment Conference.
Tarbell, who never married, is often considered a feminist by her actions, although she was critical of the women’s suffrage movement.
5 Quotes by Ida Tarbell
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
Ida TarbellAmerican journalist (1857-1944)
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else – men, guns, ammunition.
Ida TarbellAmerican journalist (1857-1944)
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida TarbellAmerican journalist (1857-1944)
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida TarbellAmerican journalist (1857-1944)
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
Ida TarbellAmerican journalist (1857-1944)